Senior PHP Symfony Engineer

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🌐 United Kingdom, Romania, +2 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇷🇴 Romania – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Smart Working

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

Smart Working is a recruitment service specializing in sourcing and providing top-tier software developers from around the world to meet the needs of businesses. With a robust vetting process that includes technical assessments and background checks, Smart Working ensures that clients receive highly skilled developers adept in various programming languages and frameworks. The company focuses on flexible and remote hiring solutions, allowing businesses to efficiently scale their development teams while benefiting from significant cost savings.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of backend development within the core Symfony application • Become fully independent in delivering work within 2–3 months of joining • Review and critically assess code written by the team and AI tools • Support migration from Symfony 6.1 to Symfony 7 • Resolve versioning, compatibility and legacy issues • Improve application performance, scalability and maintainability • Work across Angular front end, TypeScript and Python-based AI agent services • Collaborate with DevOps where backend changes impact other system areas • Understand the Angular/TypeScript codebase • Assess the wider impact of technical decisions across Symfony, Angular and AI services • Identify root causes and improve existing approaches • Deliver maintainable solutions within a legacy codebase • Work autonomously while collaborating with a remote, cross-functional team • Follow SOC 2, PII and security requirements

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of commercial software engineering experience, including at least 5 years working with PHP • 7+ years of Expert-level PHP development experience • 3+ years of recent commercial experience with Symfony 6.x/7 at Advanced level • 4+ years of Advanced experience in backend architecture, system design and scalability • 2+ years of Advanced experience using AI development tools critically, including reviewing, validating and challenging AI-generated code • 5+ years of Advanced MySQL experience, including database schema design and query optimisation • At least 1 year of experience working with or understanding Angular/TypeScript • 3+ years of Advanced experience with automated testing using PHPUnit • At least 1 year of Intermediate experience working on framework upgrades and modernising legacy codebases • 2+ years of Intermediate AWS experience • Fluent written and spoken English • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a remote environment • Ability to work UK hours • Ability to successfully complete strict background checks and adhere to PII and data protection requirements • Strong self-sufficiency and ability to operate independently after 2–3 months • Hands-on engineering approach combined with an architectural mindset • Nice-to-have: 2+ years of Intermediate CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions • Nice-to-have: Basic experience with Amazon Redshift or data warehousing • Nice-to-have: Azure exposure alongside AWS • Nice-to-have: Previous project leadership experience • Nice-to-have: Previous mentoring and technical leadership experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time, long-term role • Remote-first work environment • Genuine community focused on growth and well-being • Professional and personal growth opportunities • Collaboration with a remote, cross-functional product squad